>On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
>>I'm not exactly sure what to make of this or where it's coming from.
>>
>>http://ecoworld.com/blog/2008/10/07/abolish-public-employee-pensions/
>>
>>But: it's a bold new idea :-)
>
>No, don't know where it's coming from, but I'm really not sure about
>this:
>
>"the average government worker in California often earns 2-4x what
>globalized private sector workers earn to do jobs of comparable worth"
>
>First, the assumption that the private sector wage is somehow correct,
>and the public sector wage is inflated, is based on a lot of
>unexplored assumptions, like the notion that the private sector worker
>can't be underpaid. And second, public sector workers are, on average,
>more educated than private sector workers, so the wage premium may
>simply reflect that.
>
>Doug
>_______
what does "globalized" mean in the quoted passage?
shag